Nanpu Park, a Jiangnan style park in Tianjin, an idyllic land free from the noise.

2018-12-05source：Tianjin Tourism Information Network

Jiangnan region of China is always renowned for picturesque scenery that it has been the pronoun of gifted scholars, beautiful ladies and poetic beauty since antiquity.

Although Jiangnan is far away from Tianjin, similar scenery is easier to enjoy in Nanpu Park of Tianjin. Nanpu Park, which is a collection of all quintessences of Chinese classical garden, shows tourists elegant, unsophisticated, delicate and beautiful views through the pavilion, artificial hill, layered falling, winding paths and lotus pond, etc.

Small attractions in the park are poetically named in accordance with the development of Chinese traditional culture.

Saddle-roof buildings, the major building type of the park, are appealingly and vividly designed with strong expression of posture. Sidang Mingxia Building, as the representative building of the park integrating magnificent vigour and handsome style, is also a museum of historical exhibition themed on historical origins of Tianjin and Anhui.

Jiangnan region cannot be renowned without water, neither is the park. "Water" should be a perky-looking leading role of the park, acting everywhere around pavilions, terraces, buildings, even among layered rocks on artificial hills. Buildings are reflected distinctly in water while ripples are reflected on walls under sunshine.

Chinese parasol trees, sakura and bamboos are embellishments of the park in the shape, color and leaf, as well as a pond of lotus among winding paths. So Nanpu Park is beautiful with green throughout the year and flowers in three seasons.

Buildings, plants, hillstone and water are ingeniously matched up by designers to form an extremely artistic long corridor paved with bluestone, running through the whole park. It is not only a green and ecological corridor, but also a corridor of scientific knowledge showing glory records of Hebei District.

Nanpu Park is open to the public so some human-based requirements were also well considered in its design. It is equipped with Tai Ji Garden, Exercise Square, Diabolo Square and a jogging track. Tai Ji Garden and jogging track are ingeniously transformed from obsolete rails.